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JyA. WILSON.

SADDLE BOARD. No. 295,847. Patented Mar. 25, 1884.

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- UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

SADDLE- BOARD.

SPECIPICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 295,847, dated March 25, 1884.

Application filed July E23, 1883. (No model.)

grooves or channels formed on itslower edges,

said grooves to be filled with some known preservative of Wood.

The figure in the accompanying drawing gives a View in perspective of the saddleboard.

A A are the grooves to be filled.

The drawing gives such a full, clear, and exact description of the invention that others skilled in the art to which it appertains can make the same.

' the shingles.

The object of my invention is to preserve T Every time it rains a small portion of the filling will be washed onto the shingles, and they will soon become saturated with the preservative.

I. am aware that it has before been contemplated to preserve shingles by means of preservative substances employed in a channel or tank mounted upon top of the ridge-piece, as in I. W. Deans Patent No.; 81,147, August 18, 1868. I therefore elaim nothing therein shown.

WhatI claim, and desire to secure by Letters Pat nt is- The saddle board, substantially as shown and described, having the grooves or channels formed upon its lower edges, as set forth.

\JOSEPH A. WVILSON.

Witnesses:

CHAS. RoBBINs, O. H. SANDERS. 

